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2017-09-13

Giant tortoises

Scientists hope to revive the extinct Floreana island tortoise using a 'genetically-informed' captive breeding program with the tortoises closest ancestors.

The Galápagos National Park releases 158 captive-bred juvenile giant tortoises onto Floreana Island in the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador, marking the species' return more than 180 years after its local extinction in the 1840s.
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One surviving female specimen of the Fernandina Galápagos tortoise species, which was thought to be extinct for more than 100 years, is found.
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2017-09-13

Giant tortoises

Scientists hope to revive the extinct Floreana island tortoise using a 'genetically-informed' captive breeding program with the tortoises closest ancestors.

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